Zou's origin

The origin of Zou family: from Yao surname, from Cao surname, from Manchu.

1, originated from Yao's surname.

Zou's family originated from Yao's family and belonged to the country. According to legend, the descendants of Yao's surname founded Zou, the earliest Zou, which was later destroyed by Qi, and the descendants took the country as their surname to remember.

2. Originated in Cao Shi

From the Warring States period, Lu Mugong changed to Zou State, which belongs to the country name. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Cao Xie, a descendant of Zhuan Xu, one of the five emperors, was enfeoffed and established Zou Guo, also known as Zou Louguo. Originally established in Zou (now Qufu Village, Shandong Province), it moved to Iraq (now Jiwangcheng, Zou County, Shandong Province) in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period.

3. From Manchu.

From the late Ming Dynasty, Jurchen Zou Jiabu was named after the tribe. According to the history book Biography of the Eight Banners, Zou Jia, also known as Zujia, lived in Tieling (now Tieling, Liaoning) and belonged to one of the old Manchu surnames.

Migration distribution

Zou is a surname with multiple origins, and there are two main sources that can be verified. Ranked 60th in today's surname list, it belongs to the big surname series, with a population of about 4.5 million, accounting for about 0.45% of the total population of China. The birthplace of Zou surname should be Zoucheng, Shandong.

In the pre-Qin period, Zou's activities were mainly in Shandong. After Qin and Han Dynasties, Zou quickly moved to Henan and Hubei. During the Three Kingdoms and the Jin Dynasty, Zou Dongdu crossed Shaanxi and crossed the river to Hunan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Anhui.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, fires raged in the north. It is said that Zou, who was born in Fanyang area in ancient times, was the first to suffer. Together with other northern gentry, they also went south to avoid disaster in the areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and then dispersed in Fujian and Guangdong. During the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains moved to the south for the second time, and the Zou family moved to the south of the Yangtze River, and the Zou family in Fujian and Guangdong developed greatly.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zou Yinglong moved from Taining to Shangbao Township, Changting, and his son Dianbalang moved to Jiaokeng, Qingxi Community (now Anxi, Fujian). Dianba Lang gave birth to five sons, and the second son Zou Dehong moved to Xiangling Kaiji, Changle (now Wuhua County), Guangdong Province. His descendants lived in Huayang and Yumo towns, and some moved to Meizhou, Jieyang and Heping Music.

After the Song Dynasty, in today's Taining, Fujian, the Zou family is a big family with high prestige and status in the local area. At this time, Zou's family was further extended to all parts of the south and widely distributed in Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Fujian, Zhejiang, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

During the Hongwu period in the early Ming Dynasty, Zou traveled to Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zou's family had spread widely in the south of the Yangtze River. Some Zou's family from Fujian and Guangdong came to Taiwan Province and then spread abroad. In the early Qing Dynasty, Zou entered Taiwan.

Today, Zou is widely distributed all over the country, especially in Sichuan, Jiangxi, Shandong, Hubei, Zhejiang, Fujian and other provinces. Zou in six provinces accounts for about 68% of the Han population in China.